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Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Research

Occasional Paper 4

No. 4 Hardship in Australia: An analysis of financial stress indicators in the 1998-99 Australian Bureau of Statistics Household Expenditure Survey

J Rob Bray, December 2001

Reports on research undertaken using the financial stress questions in the Household Expenditure Survey to develop measures of disadvantage. This is in contrast to traditional social policy research which often simply focuses on income as a measure this research considers outcomes.